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Many memorable Election nights

Posted: November 6, 2011 - 12:15am

Savannah

Election Night always conjures up great memories for me. There’s nothing like being in a newsroom — large or small — on Election Night. Besides the traditional Election Night pizza, there’s plenty of buzz and excitement.

Who can forget 2000, 2004 or 2008?

Local elections are at the heart of politics. It is where all the action is. Running for school board, town council or a County Council seat is no cake walk.

Just gearing up to campaign and open yourself up to public scrutiny deserves kudos. Campaigning for public office takes a commitment of time, plenty of energy, and requires a good bit of patience.

If your quest for elected office is successful, then the fun really begins. Candidates and office holders ultimately show leadership and communication skills within the first 90 days.

Since this is technically an off-cycle election year, we anticipate a low voter turnout. And that is truly a shame. Your friends and neighbors who are running need your support at the polls.

There are four candidates running for two Bluffton Town Council seats. Two incumbents are facing two political newcomers. They all care enough about this community to run. Who wins could be settled by just a few votes.

The outcome of Tuesday’s elections won’t be in your Bluffton Today on Wednesday. We go to press well before the results will be tallied.

But you will be able to go to our website, blufftontoday.com, to find out who won the race for Town Council. We’ll post those results Tuesday night as soon as we have them.

The August relaunch of the newspaper led to a two-day a week publication (Wednesday and Sunday) and also changed our deadlines.

How we handle elections at Bluffton Today has changed. But everything has changed over the years thanks to technology and the “I want and need it now mentality.”

No longer do you wait for the morning newspaper to find out who won last night’s important election. You either go online and watch the results come in or you tune in to your favorite news channel and let them spoon-feed you the results.

We hope you choose to follow us online and get your election results that way. And then next Sunday in the print edition we’ll bring you a deeper analysis of those results that also includes how people in each precinct voted.

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